Someone vividly used a single sentence to distinguish the difference between civilization and barbarism—
Barbarians eat meat with their hands, wiping them on animal skins afterward.
However, civilized people use forks and knives to eat meat and dab their mouths with napkins afterward.
Is there an essential difference between them?
Actually, there isn't. Eating meat is just eating meat; it won't change the fact that you are eating meat, no matter how refined or elegant you look while doing it.
You're still eating meat, and nobody can change that fact.
But this is a necessary process for the progress of social civilization. The law gives people a sense of shame while "eating meat," making them appear civilized and harmless.
What's worth noting here is that the appearance they present is not for fellow capitalists at the same level but for those in the lower and middle classes of society.
"Although we eat meat, we are not barbaric."
